• Book Reviews,  Fiction

    Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis

    24th November 2020
    Cover of Cantoras (Carolina De Robertis)

    Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis

    Click on the cover for my review on Goodreads.

    Content warnings: homophobia, sexism, infidelity, government censorship, torture, abuse (cigarette burns), rape, sexual assault, pedophilia, loss of family, alcohol abuse, forced hospitalization (conversion therapy), electric shock, suicide, blood, miscarriage, death of prominent character (spoiler in white text)

    “I think you know how to love.”

    You know the question people like to ask: if you were only to read one book for the rest of your life, what would it be? I never had an answer; never, until today. I’d gladly read Cantoras a thousand times over; I’d hug this book to my heart forever if I could.

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    The Traveling Triple-C Incorporeal Circus by Alanna McFall | ARC Review

    18th September 2020
    Cover of The Traveling Triple-C Incorporeal Circus.

    The Traveling Triple-C Incorporeal Circus by Alanna McFall

    Chelsea Shu died a tragic death on NYC Subway tracks and never got to attend her brother Osric’s wedding. After discovering an afterlife as a ghost, she befriended Carmen, a fellow spirit, and Cyndricka, a homeless mime-performing human. The three of them, incidentally the Triple Cs, set out on foot for a cross-country trip to attend Osric’s postponed wedding in San Francisco. They understood it would be a difficult journey, but little did they know what was actually in store for them throughout the months-long walk.

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    The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi | ARC Review

    21st August 2020
    Cover of The Death of Vivek Oji (Akwaeke Emezi)

    The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

    I know what they say about men who allow other men to penetrate them. Ugly things; ugly words. Calling them women, as if that’s supposed to be ugly, too. I’d heard it since secondary school, and I knew what that night was supposed to make me. Less than a man—something disgusting, something weak and shameful. But if that pleasure was supposed to stop me from being a man, then fine. They could have it. I’d take the blinding light of his touch, the blessed peace of having him so close, and I would stop being a man. I was never one to begin with, anyway.

    Content warnings: death, incest, rape, infidelity, abuse, misogyny

    I don’t know how Emezi does it, but they managed to make Vivek’s story breathtaking.

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